No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

The political controversy surrounding this Boston's Big Dig could have the effect of throwing cold water on any plans for farsighted infrastructure development around the country.

Change your thought, change your mind.Change your belief, change your action.

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

And he that will this health deny, Down among the dead men let him lie.

God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted.

Through wind, and tempest, storm, and rain; The calm shall be buried inside of me; A warm stone, heavy and dry; The root, the source, a weapon against pain

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

I don't think you tell someone you love them because you expect something. I think you tell them because you have something to give.

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